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In the dictionary of the boy’s imagination, this house would be listed under the entry of real home.

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Tattered spy novels, texts on information theory and binary multipliers, and an old Polish-English dictionary.

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He returns drenched in sweat and hands me a pocket-size Spanish-English dictionary.

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The whole room got very quiet and I was glad, now, that at the last minute I had looked up resourceful in the dictionary.

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The Larousse dictionary for 11- to 15-year-old students contained the same phrase as that discovered by an anti-racism body in three revision books, the company told AFP.

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